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A. L. KRAUS.

BUFFING WHEEL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 30, 1915.

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ALBERT L. KRAUS, 0F PEABODY, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 HIMSELF, AND EDWARD I]. MILLETT, OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS, COPARTNERS DOING BUSINESS UNDER THE FIRM-NAME OF KRAUS BODY, MASSACHUSETTS.

MILLETT & COMPANY, OF PEA- BUFFING-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

Original application filed October 26, 1915, Serial No. 58,029. Divided and. this application filed December 30, 1915. Serial No. 69,476.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT L. KRAUs, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Peabody, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buffing-Wheels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to buifing machines, and more particularly to the wheels of such machines of the type which carry a removable bufiing strip. The present application is a division of an application for patent for butting machines filed by me on October 26, 1915, Serial N 0. 58,029. In the wheels of this type heretofore provided, with which I am familiar, it is necessary to remove a part or parts of the wheel in order to take off the worn-out strip and to replace such part or parts after the new strip has been placed in position. This work of changing or renewing the boiling strip is often laborious, consuming considerable time, and it is the principal object of this invention to provide a wheel wherein the buffing strip can be readily removed and replaced without removal or replacement of any part or parts of the wheel.

Referring to the drawings which illustrate an embodiment of my invention,

Figure 1 is a side View of my improved wheel; Fig. 2 is a vertical central section through the wheel shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a section on line 33, Fig. 1.

My improved wheel consists of a felly F made in two sections hinged at 1, and has a hub 2 provided with a spoke 3 preferably formed integral therewith and with one section of the folly F, as shown. The said hub is further provided opposite said spoke 3 with a feather 4c adapted to fit within a recess 5 in the spoke 6. The said spoke 6, which is formed integral with the other section of the felly F, is provided with forks 7 extending on opposite sides of the hub 2, and to the ends of said forks there is secured in any suitable manner, as by screws 8, a cap 9 having a slot 10 (Fig. 3) through which the spoke 3 passes. On opposite sides of said slot 10 are sockets 11 adapted to receive springs 12. One end of each of said springs engages the bottom of its socket 11 and its opposite end engages the hub 2 so that said springs are held under between said rims 13 compresslon between said cap 9 and said hub. The run 13 (Fig. 2) is preferably formed integrally with the felly F, and the rim 11 is detachably secured thereto as by the screw exerting their pressure against the hub 2 and the cap 9, which is fast to the spoke 6, hold the 'two sections of the wheel yieldingly yet firmly together. When it becomes necessary to replace the strip 19 the two sections are swung apart on their hinge 1 until the pin 18 is out of its socket 20, and while the sections are thus held in open position, the old strip 19 can be readily removed and tuted therefor. The opening movement of the wheel sections compresses or closes the springs 12, so that when the new strip has been placed in position and the sections are released, the springs are free to expand and return the sections to normal closed position with the buffing strip 19 firmly gripped between their free ends.

I claim:

1. A bufling wheel comprising a hub, a felly formed in two sections, a pivotal connection between said sections, a spoke and a spring between said hub and said spoke, yieldingly to hold said sections in closed position.

2. A bufling wheel comprising a hub, a felly formed in two sections, a pivotal connection between said sections, a spoke having forks extending on opposite sides of said hub, a cap on said fork, and a spring between said cap and said hub yieldingly to hold said sections in closed position.

3. A buifing wheel comprising a hub, a felly formed in two sections, a pivotal connection between said sections, a spoke sea new strip substicured to one of said sections and having forks extending on opposite sides of said hub, a cap on said forks having a slot, a spoke secured to said hub and the other of said sections and passing through said slot, and a spring between said cap and said hub yieldingly to hold said sections in closed position.

4:. A buffing wheel comprising a hub, a

felly formed in two sections, a pivotal con nection between said sections, a spoke secured to one of said sections and having forks extending on opposite sides of said hub, a cap on said forks having a slot, a spoke secured to said hub and the other of said sections and passing through said slot and said cap having a pair of sockets on opposite sides of said slot, and springs in said sockets engaging said hub adapted yieldingly to hold said sections in closed position.

5. A buffing wheel comprising a hub, a felly formed in two sections, a pivotal connection between said sections, rims on said felly, one at least being removably secured thereto and each of said rims having a circumferential rib, a strip support having grooves secured between said rims with said ribs in said grooves, and means yieldingly to hold said sections in closed position.

6. A buffing wheel comprising a hub, a felly formed in two sections, a pivotal con nection betweensaid sections, rims on said telly, one at least being removably secured thereto and'each of said rims having a circumferential rib, a strip support having grooves secured between said rims with said ribs in said grooves, a spoke secured to one section of said felly and having forks extending on opposite sides of said hub, a cap on said forks having a slot, a spoke secured to said hub and the other section of said felly and passing through said slot, and said cap having a pair of sockets on opposite sides of said slot, and springs in said slots engaging said hub adapted yieldingly to hold said sections in closed position.

7. A buifing wheel comprising a hub, a V

felly formed in two sections, a pivotal connection between said sections, a pin mounted on the free end of one of said sections, a socket on the other of said sections adapted to receive said pin when said sections are closed, and means yieldingly to hold said sections in closed position.

Signed by me at Peabody, Massachusetts, this 24th day of December, 1915. V

ALBERT L. KRAUS. Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. Nnnvns, DENNIS E. OCoNNoR.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

